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Part of the panel âThe Bailey brouhaha: Community members speak out on resisting transphobia and sexism in academia and beyondâ
Joelle Ruby Ryan, moderator
National Womenâs Studies Association conference Cincinnati, Ohio June 21, 2008
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As is frequently the case in discussions that are conducted with a great show of emotion, the down-to-earth interests of certain groups, whose excitement is entirely concerned with factual matters and who therefore try to distort the facts, become quickly and inextricably involved with the untrammeled inspirations of intellectuals who, on the contrary, are not in the least interested in facts but treat them merely as a springboard for âideas.â
Hannah Arendt, Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil
The âcontroversyâ about J. Michael Baileyâs book is a marketing ploy by academic opportunists whose careers involve exploiting oppressed minorities. Bailey claims his bookâs third section on transsexual taxonomy triggered the response, but he had published that material years earlier as âTranssexualism: Women trapped in menâs bodies or men who would be women?â (Bailey 2000). His eventual title echoes that: The Man Who Would Be Queen (Bailey2003a).
Nobody went after Bailey when his work was first published. I myself sent a critical but civil note in May 2000 (James 2000). No one went after Baileyâs âsex scienceâ colleagues for their âscienceâ on trans women in previous decades. While those writings epitomize institutionalized transphobia (such as labeling trans women attracted to men âhomosexual transsexualsâ (Bagemihl 1997)), the authors generally remain academically responsible. Their true colors appear when popularizing their ideas, such as Ray Blanchardâs interview claiming a transsexual woman is merely âa man without a penisâ (Armstrong 2004).
The populist response to Baileyâs book in 2003 happened because
it was fraudulently marketed as science by the National Academies of Science
it became a cure narrative about gender-variant children
Why the populist response?
National Academies member Lynn Conway helped coordinate the populist response, titling her work âAn investigation into the publication of J. Michael Bailey’s book on transsexualism by the National Academiesâ (Conway 2003). It wasnât about Baileyâs third section, or Baileyâs ideas, or Bailey himself. It was about how this salacious bigotry got published by the National Academies of Science. It expanded because National Academies employees Stephen Mautner and Barbara Kline Pope never answered that question. Mautner even defended it as a âresponsible workâ (Mautner 2003).
Letâs examine Mautnerâs outrageous claim. Letâs say your academic field comprises a pervasive stereotype about an oppressed minority; letâs say greediness in Jewish people. You and your colleagues have access to Jews through state-run programs which compel them to submit to your experiments. Historical examples abound, like the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male (Heller 1972), or Robert Ritterâs work classifying the two types of âgypsiesâ for the Nazis (Willems 1997). For trans people the historical example is Torontoâs Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (formerly the Clarke Institute), the source of much of the âscienceâ Bailey alludes to in his book.
Via state-funded experiments, your colleagues assert all Jews exhibit one of two types of greed: innate greed, or greed driven by fantasies of wealth and power. You write a book about it, including memorable anecdotes about greedy Jews youâve met at pawn shops and brothels. You frame your book with a Jewish child you saw cured through therapy. You devise a test to tell the two types of greedy Jews apart. You claim a hallmark of Jewish greed is denial, so any greedy Jew who objects to your taxonomy âprovesâ its validity. You quote eccentric Jewish people validated by your attention, who agree âmost greedy Jews lie.â
Stephen Mautner at the National Academies of Science arranges a secret âpeer reviewâ and youâre set. You title it The Jew in Jewelry: The Science of Judaism. Mautnerâs team creates a cover depicting a hook-nosed figure clutching a wad of money. Barbara Kline Pope sends out press releases and puts the book online, and you get tenure.
While that kind of foul play was certainly outrageous, what radicalized me was Baileyâs new framing device exploiting trans children (James 2003b). He compared his own children as the benchmark of normalcy (p. 52, p. 69). He also used his own children as evidence of his own normalcy: he calls himself a âsingle heterosexual manâ (p. 141). He even dedicated his book to his children (p. v) and later trotted them out as evidence in the press (Wilson 2003).
Reparative therapy of gender-variant youth
Baileyâs book is first and foremost a cure narrative framed by the story of âDanny Ryan,â a pseudonymous child displaying âgender nonconformity.â Bailey writes of Danny’s mother, who has been frustrated by other therapists she has consulted about her sonâs âfeminineâ behavior: âIn spring of 1996 Leslie Ryan came to my Northwestern University office to seek yet another opinionâ (p. 16).
Bailey describes the âcuringâ of âDanny Ryanâ after he explains to Dannyâs mother about reparative therapy developed by his Toronto cronies (p. 3, p. 214). Bailey warns that a world tolerant of feminine boys might âcome with the cost of more transsexual adultsâ (p. 30), noting Ken Zucker thinks reparative therapy helps âreduce this riskâ (p. 30). Bailey claims that Zucker considers transsexualism a âbad outcomeâ for children like Danny (p. 31). Zuckerâs reparative therapy involves taking away anything âfeminineâ from the child (p. 31). Bailey notes, âlearning more about the origins of transsexualism will not get us much closer to curing itâ (p. 207).
Dannyâs âcuringâ is complete when Bailey runs into Danny on the last page of the book: âThis was not a girl in boyâs clothingâ (p. 214). Baileyâs last paragraph claims Danny asks to use the men’s room. Bailey observes, âI am certain that as he said that, he emphasized âmenâsâ and looked my wayâ (p. 214).
Clinicians compare Zuckerâs efforts to âreparative therapy for homosexualsâ (Pickstone-Taylor 2003), noting that reparative therapy âseeks to reverse sexual orientation or gender identificationâ (Dean 2000) [emphasis mine]. Zucker claims his âtherapeutic interventionâ is OK â he only cures âgender identity disorder,â not homosexuality. Zuckerâs âproblematic and harshâ (Lostracco 2008) reparative therapy is detailed in a 2008 NPR report: Zucker ordered a mother to take away her childâs âfeminineâ toys and ordered the child not to play with or even draw pictures of girls (Spiegel 2008).
The populist response to Zuckerâs reparative therapy has been largely driven by the internet, the most significant advance for trans people that will happen in my lifetime. Our collected wisdom, once an oral tradition of drag mothers and pageant culture, a mish-mash of mimeographed pamphlets and clippings, mail-order newsletters, and answering machine recordings now has a permanent online home. Parents who once fought alone (Evelyn 1998) share alternatives to reparative therapy and refer families to supportive providers. Families are stepping forward as the public faces of gender-variant youth (TYFA 2008), organizing support groups and publicizing alternatives to Zuckerâs reparative therapy (Brill 2008). We are in the midst of a paradigm shift as progressive providers really listen to the voice of the people and consider the true welfare of trans children.
Academia as a tool of trans oppression
Our populist uprising targets high-end academic research, which has become a corrupt, bloated money grab with almost no consequence if employees generate grant money and publicity. Bailey and colleagues like Alice Dreger exploit master narratives (Dreger 2008), consensus statements (ISNA 2006), college texts (LeVay 2003), and selective peer review (Mautner 2003) to reinforce their views and dismiss differing views, especially from their objects of study. They turned the Archives of Sexual Behavior into the house organ and bully pulpit for knowledge produced by Torontoâs Centre for Addiction and Mental Health. Theyâve also developed a highly effective strategy of using personal validation to exploit vulnerable individuals in oppressed communities. Following his exploitation of Anjelica Kieltyka (p. xii), Bailey continued with validation-craving eccentrics like Anne Lawrence (p. xii), Maxine Petersen (p. xii), and Alice Dreger (Dreger 2008), and in turn Dreger exploited Cheryl Chase (ISNA 2006) and Anjelica Kieltyka again (Dreger 2008). This tactic strengthens their credentialist positions as outsider experts, a feedback cycle of reciprocal validation from these grateful individuals.
âTrollingâ is internet slang for baiting people into a response. Online trolling is a highly developed subculture; academia and mainstream media have forms of trolling. Anne Coulter and Michael Moore turned trolling into entertainment. Trolls get money and publicity, and Bailey is a professional academic troll. His trolling template was the 1994 best-seller The Bell Curve, the âscienceâ of racial differences in intelligence (Herrnstein 1994). Janice Raymondâs transphobic troll The Transsexual Empire (Raymond 1979) epitomizes an unanswered troll that took decades to undo. Academic trolls canât lose. No response implies approval; any objection (however mild) becomes evidence theyâre right.
In 2003, Bailey called a mild rebuke from biologist Joan Roughgarden (Roughgarden 2003) âinsulting and scathingâ and characterized it as a âscreedâ (Bailey 2003b). By framing my non-academic response as a counter-troll, I deliberately shifted the âextremeâ edge of the debate, moving formerly âradicalâ views to the moderate position. I have no interest whatsoever in having a âscientificâ or âcivilâ debate about this book; thatâs one way academic trolls try to control the debate. Academics tend to be very thin-skinned and self-important, so theyâre easy to troll. The key to good trolling is getting them to do what you want while thinking it was their idea. Bailey and I are public figures, so pretty much anything said about us is fair comment. I wanted to echo Baileyâs disrespect, to bring consequence to his actions, since no academic consequence could be expected. I made it very clear this was the tipping point: a defining moment in our history (James 2004).
Populist uprisings always use new media to great effect. The means of production and distribution of knowledge are no longer controlled by elites. Lynn Conwayâs online investigation (Conway 2003) and my clearinghouse (James 2003a) had hundreds of contributors submitting thousands of items. In 2003 and 2004, it was everything we could do just to catalogue it all. The incident united the trans community as never before; a historically significant event (Surkan 2007). Academics attempting a feeble backlash against the Bailey backlash (Dreger 2008) are simply on the wrong side of history.
Reproduction and eugenics
Freudian psychology is being supplanted by a âbio-psych mergeâ (Ordover 2003). Sociobiology, behavior genetics, and evolutionary psychology all try to graft science onto social constructions, like âsocial Darwinismâ and eugenics before them.
In Baileyâs evolutionary psychology, âhomosexuality might be the most striking unresolved paradox of human evolution.â Because he believes âthe number of healthy offspring one leaves is perhaps the best indicator of evolutionary successâ (p. 116), Bailey frames his book within this essentialist discourse, where homosexuality is âmaladaptiveâ (p. 116) in terms of evolution. Most people see ârace scienceâ as hopelessly biased pseudoscience, but most donât see similarities between âsex scienceâ and ârace scienceâ yet. In fact, many LGBT people have faith that their political salvation lies in âsex scienceâ (Ordover 2003). Being labeled distinct, disordered, and diseased may rescue them from the âsinâ and âlifestyle choiceâ arguments, but at what cost?
This controversy boils down to reproduction, specifically natural selection. Essentially (in every sense of that word), the controversy is about the eugenic ideology of the âunfit.â âGender identity disorderâ and âdisorders of sex developmentâ are eugenic heterosexism. Bailey thinks homosexuality may represent a âdevelopmental errorâ (Bailey 1999). Blanchard thinks ânonhomosexualâ transsexualism is a paraphilic âdefect in a manâs sexual learningâ (Blanchard 1991), echoing his mentor Freundâs âcourtship disordersâ (Freund 1983). The order to which eugenicists ascribe asserts that the purpose or function of life is to make more life, or more specifically, âbetterâ life.
Conservatives hate the populist phrase âit takes a village to raise a child.â It takes a family to raise a child, they counter. Zucker blames childhood gender identity disorder on poor family dynamics and âmaternal psychopathologyâ (Zucker 2002). Bailey, Lawrence, and Dreger obliquely assert their worth or fitness is evidenced by being breeding organisms. Bailey talks about screening for and aborting gay fetuses as a âparental rightâ (Greenberg 2001), hinting that the next wave of eugenics will occur in utero. The âparental rightsâ movement can be better thought of as distributed eugenics. One way to stop distributed eugenics is through populism, by helping regular people understand that individual choices affect the whole population and vice versa.
Conclusion
Baileyâs book is a self-aggrandizing exercise in identity politics, where heâs a heroic scientist who is âcuringâ gender-variant children and speaking âscientific truthâ despite âhystericalâ activists whose âidentity politicsâ and ânarcissisticâ rage drive their efforts to âruinâ him (Bailey 2003c). Bailey outlines transsexualsâ âcommon lies and deceptivenessâ (p. 232) and explains away those who take issue with his claims as inept (p. 176), mentally disordered (Dreier 2003), or lying (Krasny 2007).
But thatâs not the real story. Essentially, Baileyâs book argues that he is a âsingle heterosexual manâ (p. 141). He throws around the phrase âgay, straight, or lyingâ (p. 96, p. 133) because he hates sexologist John Moneyâs book Gay, Straight, and In-Between (Money 1990). By replacing âin-betweenâ with âlying,â Bailey erases his bisexual and trans critics and extols his âopen and honestâ supporters of the âmale essenceâ narrative. (Wyndzen 2008). Yet Bailey isnât open and honest about his own sexual interests: âEverything that Iâm willing to say about my personal life, Iâve already saidâ (Krasny 2007). For more on this hypocrisy, see my essay âGay, Straight, or Baileyâ (James 2003c). Bailey is only attracted to âhomosexual transsexualsâ who are ânaturally feminineâ (p. 168): âIf a gay man wants to attract straight men, he should imitate a womanâ (p. 138). Blanchard appeals to Bailey because transfans like Bailey âare not gay but are more like âscrambled up heterosexual menââ (p. 187). Blanchardâs taxonomy (and thus Baileyâs book) also affirms Anne Lawrenceâs self-identity as a ârealâ transsexual (Lawrence 1998) rather than a non-transsexual under other taxonomies (Lawrence 2001). Bailey, Blanchard, and Lawrence are locked a feedback loop of personal and professional validation with like-minded supporters.
In my opinion, Baileyâs fraud extends beyond marketing this âcontroversyâ as science. Baileyâs âRyanâ family is too perfect, embodying every element needed for Bailey to refute opponents, all in one convenient family. âDanny Ryanâ would be an adult now, so I imagine a disinterested party will soon independently determine if âDannyâ exists.
Baileyâs âcontroversyâ was countered by a populist response that exposed his indefensible actions. He unwittingly started an unstoppable populist movement which still amazes me daily. It evokes a passage from Maya Angelou (Angelou 1978) that I first read in Les Feinbergâs Transgender Warriors (Feinberg 1996):
You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise.
References
Parenthetical page numbers in the article refer to Baileyâs The Man Who Would Be Queen and are quoted in Appendix 1.
Angelou, Maya (1978). Still I Rise. And Still I Rise. Random House.
Arendt, Hannah (1963). Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. Reprint 1992, Penguin Classics.
Armstrong, Jane (2004). The body within: The body without. The Globe and Mail, June 12.
Toronto psychologist Ray Blanchard, one of Canada’s leading — and most controversial — gender experts, argues the transgendered movement is rife with delusion. “This is not waving a magic wand and a man becomes a woman and vice versa,” he says. “It’s something that has to be taken very seriously. A man without a penis has certain disadvantages in this world, and this is in reality what you’re creating.”
Bagemihl, Bruce (1997). Surrogate phonology and transsexual faggotry: A linguistic analogy for uncoupling sexual orientation from gender identity. In Queerly Phrased: Language, Gender, and Sexuality. Anna Livia, Kira Hall (eds.) pp. 380 ff. Oxford University Press.
A particularly revealing example of the heterosexist and generally biased reasoning of medical professionals can be found in the language used to categorize and pathologize transsexuality. Clinical studies and definitions have traditionally employed a confusing terminology in which, for example, a female-to-male transsexual who is attracted to women is labeled a “homosexual transsexual,” while a female-to-male transsexual who is attracted to men is labeled a “heterosexual transsexual.” In other words, the point of reference for “heterosexual” or “homosexual” orientation in this nomenclature is solely the individual’s genetic sex prior to reassignment (see for example, Blanchard et al. 1987, Coleman and Bockting, 1988, Blanchard, 1989). These labels thereby ignore the individualâs personal sense of gender identity taking precedence over biological sex, rather than the other way around. With this clinical terminology, people can be conveniently described as “escaping” a stigmatized homosexual identity when they become involved with members of the opposite sex following reassignment (erroneously assumed to be âthe normâ). The myth of the heterosexual imperative and the primacy of biology is thereby reasserted and rebuttressed, while the transgressive status of all transsexuals is trivialized.
Bailey, J. Michael (1999). Commentary: Homosexuality and mental illness, Archives of General Psychiatry, October, vol. 56, no. 10, 876-880.
Bailey, J. Michael (2000). Transsexualism: Women trapped in menâs bodies or men who would be women? http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.psych.nwu.edu/psych/people/faculty/bailey/transsexualism.html
Bailey, J. Michael (2003a). The Man Who Would Be Queen: The Science of Gender-Bending and Transsexualism. National Academies/Joseph Henry Press.
Bailey, J. Michael (2003b). Book controversy question & answer. http://www.psych.northwestern.edu/psych/people/faculty/bailey/controversy.htm
Bailey, J. Michael (2003c). Identity politics as a hindrance to scientific truth. Paper presented at International Academy of Sex Research conference, July 19.
Blanchard, Ray (1991). Clinical observations and systematic studies of autogynephilia. Journal of Sex and Marital Therapy, 17(4), 235-251.
Brill, Stephanie and Rachel Pepper (2008). The Transgender Child. Cleis Press.
Conway, Lynn (2003). An investigation into the publication of J. Michael Bailey’s book on transsexualism by the National Academies. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/LynnsReviewOfBaileysBook.html
Dean, Laura, et al. (2000). Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender health: Findings and concerns. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, 2000.
Dreger, Alice (2008). The controversy surrounding The Man Who Would Be Queen: A case history of the politics of science, identity, and sex in the internet age. Archives of Sexual Behavior. 37:3, pp. 366-421.
Dreier, Sarah and Kevin Anderson (2003). Prof’s book challenges opinions of human sexuality. Daily Northwestern, April 21.
âA lot of people think there is something weird about (being an autogynepheliac) and it is a narcissistic blow,” Bailey said. “I am very sympathetic to transsexuals. I like these people, except for the people who hate me — they scare me. [âŠ] I am not rejecting the claims (of transsexuals) for no reason,” he said. “There is good scientific research that says you should believe me and not them.”
Evelyn, Just (1998). Mom, I need to be a girl. Walter Trook Publishing.
Feinberg, Leslie (1996). Transgender Warriors: Making History from Joan of Arc to Dennis Rodman. Beacon Press.
Freund, Kurt, et al. (1983). The courtship disorders. Archives of Sexual Behavior, 12:369-79.
Greenberg, Aaron, and J. Michael Bailey (2001). Parental selection of children’s sexual orientation. Archives of Sexual Behavior. Aug;30(4):423-37; discussion 439-41.
Heller, Jean (1972). “Syphilis Victims in the U.S. Study Went Untreated for 40 Years” (Associated Press), New York Times, July 26, 1972: 1, 8.
Herrnstein, Richard, and Charles Murray (1994). The Bell Curve: Intelligence and Class Structure in American Life. Free Press.
Hill, Darryl B., et al. (2006). Gender Identity Disorders in Childhood and Adolescence: A Critical Inquiry. pp. 7-34. In Dan Karasic and Jack Drescher (Eds.) Sexual and Gender Diagnoses of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM): A Reevaluation. Haworth Press.
Zucker and Bradley believe that reparative treatments (encouraging the child to accept their natal sex and associated gender) can be therapeutic for several reasons. They believe that treatment can reduce social ostracism by helping gender non-conforming children mix more readily with same sex peers and prevent long-term psychopathological development (1.e., it is easier to change a child than a society intolerant of gender diversity). Reparative therapy is believed to reduce the chances of adult GID (i.e., transsexualism) which Zucker and Bradley characterize as undesirable. Thus, ânippingâ gender disorder âin the budâ holds a promise of an easier life for the child in adulthood, something that resonates with some parents.
Intersex Society of North America (2006). Consortium on Disorders of Sex Development. http://www.dsdguidelines.org/
James, Andrea (2000). Internet article on transsexualism. Personal email to J. Michael Bailey, May 3.
James, Andrea (2003a). Categorically wrong? A Bailey-Blanchard-Lawrence clearinghouse. Transsexual Road Map. http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/bailey-blanchard-lawrence.html
James, Andrea (2003b). Need your number. Personal email to Anne Lawrence, April 18.
When criticized for a deliberately offensive satire including Baileyâs kids, I replied, âIt’s how he’s treating my kids.â
James Andrea (2003c). Gay, straight, or Bailey: J. Michael Baileyâs very personal crusade against bisexuality. Transsexual Road Map. http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/bailey-bisexual.html
James, Andrea (2004). A defining moment in our history: Examining disease models of gender variance. Transsexual Road Map. Reprinted in Transgender Tapestry issue 110, 2006. http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/gender-identity.html
Krasny, Stuart (2007). “Transgender Theories.” Forum with host Michael Krasny, KQED 22 August. http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/alice-dreger/bailey-kqed.html
Bailey: âI⊠Not only does âDannyâ exist, but I am⊠I have several informants who keep me apprised of his development, and now heâs a happy, out gay man, as I predicted in the book. And I would say that both the critics in the studio there, either have not read my book, or they are lying about it.
Bailey: You know, I donât see how this campaign of defamation requires me to open up my entire personal life to everybody, soâ
Bailey: Everything that Iâm willing to say about my personal life Iâve already said, and you should probably be asking Alice Dreger”
Lawrence, Anne (1998). âMen trapped in menâs bodies:â An introduction to the concept of autogynephilia. http://home.swipnet.se/~w-13968/autogynephilia.html
Among transsexuals, autogynephilia is not quite respectable as a topic for discussion. For one thing, many transsexuals have a passionate dislike for the Clarke Institute, and tend to dismiss out of hand any findings that have come from it. Therefore Blanchard’s ideas are not often talked about; and when they are raised, they tend to get shouted down. Shame is undoubtedly another deterrent. It is probably just too threatening for many transsexuals to admit that they have had autogynephilic fantasies, and especially to admit that autogynephilic sexual desire may have been one of their motivations for seeking sex reassignment surgery. People are understandably reluctant to admit to having a paraphilia — more popularly known as a perversion. Most transsexual women want to be seen as a âreal women,â and it is widely understood that paraphilic arousal is almost exclusively confined to men. Transsexuals who admit to autogynephilic arousal may not be seen as âreal womenâ — and may not even be seen as ârealâ transsexuals!
Lawrence, Anne, and Sember R (2001). Not to cure: A conversation about health, gender and sexuality. Journal of the Gay and Lesbian Medical Association, Volume 5, Number 1, March 2001, pp. 27-29(3).
âWhen I deliberately reach for a sexually exciting image, I often think back to myself as a gender dysphoric adolescent, and the most sexually exciting thing I can imagine is the possibility of transforming my body at that young age.â
[authorâs comment: That doesnât sound like Blanchardâs âmisdirected heterosexuality,â it sounds like redirected pedophilia.]
LeVay, Simon, and Sharon Valente (2003). Human Sexuality. Sinauer Associates.
Lostracco, Marc (2008). But for today I am a boy. Torontoist, May 9. http://torontoist.com/2008/05/but_for_today_i_am_a_boy.php
Mautner, Stephen (2003). [Untitled open letter], June 24. http://www.tsroadmap.com/info/stephen-mautner.pdf
The Joseph Henry Press (JHP), publisher of Baileyâs book, is an imprint of the National Academies Press engaged in publishing books on science, engineering, and medicine for popular audiences. JHP books are individually authored works, each carrying a notice that the opinions expressed are solely the authorâs and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Academies. JHP follows clear decision rules for selecting books for publication and for scientific review of manuscripts. The work in question was reviewed as a well-crafted and responsible work on a difficult topic, reflecting one approach to a legitimate avenue of scholarship and research.
Money, John (1990). Gay, Straight and In-Between: The Sexology of Erotic Orientation. Oxford University Press.
Ordover, Nancy (2003). American Eugenics: Race, Queer Anatomy, and the Science of Nationalism. University of Minnesota Press.
Pickstone-Taylor, S.D. (2003). Children with gender nonconformity. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 42, 266.
Raymond, Janice (1979, reprint 1994). The Transsexual Empire: The Making of the She-Male. Teachers College, Columbia University, New York; Editions du Seuil, Paris.
Roughgarden, Joan (2003). Psychology lecture lacks sensitivity to sexual orientation. The Stanford Daily, April 25. http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2003/4/25/psychologyLectureLacksSensitivityToSexualOrientation
Bailey was introduced as âcontroversial,â someone whose work has important implications for law, medicine and social policy and as a successful teacher whose courses feature âTranssexuals stripping after class.â (First big laugh.) The initial photographs included a male-bodied child wearing her motherâs shoes, when the second round of laughter erupted. A female-bodied child was then shown in male clothes and quoted as saying she âwanted a penis,â again producing laughter. In another example, an older child in a clinical setting was given the choice of toys and chose a doll and a wig. She was quoted as saying, âI hate my hair,â greatly amusing the audience.
Roughgarden, Joan (2004). The Bailey affair: Psychology perverted. http://ai.eecs.umich.edu/people/conway/TS/Reviews/Psychology%20Perverted%20%20by%20Joan%20Roughgarden.htm
Spiegel, Alix (2008). Two families grapple with sonsâ gender preferences. All Things Considered, NPR, May 7. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90247842
Surkan, K (2007). Transsexuals Protest Academic Exploitation. In Lillian Faderman, Yolanda Retter, Horacio Roque RamĂrez, eds. ”Great Events From History: Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender Events, 1848-2006.” pages 111-114. Salem Press
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Appendix 1: Cited passages from The Man Who Would Be Queen
v For Drew/Kate [author comment: Bailey renders his childrenâs names as if dedicating this to one (trans) person who uses both a male and a female name]
3 After Danny Ryan became a proficient walker, not much more than a year old, he ventured into his momâs closet. He came out with a pair of strappy heels and struggled to put them on.
16 In the spring of 1996 Leslie Ryan came to my Northwestern University office to seek yet another opinion. Jennifer, Dannyâs sitter, was a student in my human sexuality class and was working in my laboratory on studies of sexual orientation.
30 [Kenneth] Zucker thinks that an important goal of treatment is to help the children accept their birth sex and to avoid becoming transsexual. His experience has convinced him that if a boy with GID becomes an adolescent with GID, the chances that he will become an adult with GID and seek a sex change are much higher. And he thinks that the kind of therapy he practices helps reduce this risk.
31 The central difference between Zucker and his critics on the left is that Zucker believes that most boys who play with girlsâ things often enough to earn a diagnosis of GID would become girls if they could. Failure to intervene increases the chances of transsexualism in adulthood, which Zucker considers a bad outcome.
52 I think of my own daughter and cannot imagine her deciding to be a boy, even if I lied to her and told her that she was born one.
69 My son was 10 years old when we began our dance study. One day I explained what we were studying, and I asked him why I might expect to find a high rate of gay male dancers. He immediately answered, âBecause dancing is feminine, and gay men tend to be feminine.â I was pleased by his answer, which was also mine.
69 Another anecdote involving my son: 70 When he was 10 years old, we were sitting in a theater waiting for the movie to start. A man behind us was speaking, and my son leaned over and said, âDad, thereâs someone for you to study.â My son knows that I study sexual orientation, and this was his way of suggesting that the man sounded gay.
75 Although their data are less scientific, gay men share [Kurt] Freundâs skepticism. They have a saying: 76 âYouâre either gay, straight, or lying.â In contrast, many women are bisexual; perhaps most are, at least in their sexual arousal patterns.
116 Heterosexuality is a paradigmatic evolutionary adaptation. The desire to have sex with members of the opposite sex helps people have sex that might result in offspring. The number of healthy offspring one leaves is perhaps the best indicator of evolutionary success. Homosexuality is evolutionarily maladaptive. I think this is an undeniable fact, although gay-positive people (and I am one) tend to cringe when they hear words like these. âEvolutionarily maladaptiveâ sounds like an insult, but it isnât one.
133 Recall gay menâs skepticism about men who claim to be bisexual. (âYouâre either gay, straight, or lying.â) My lab has been trying to find bisexual men by studying menâs erections to male versus female sexual stimuli.
138 If a gay man wants to attract straight men, he should imitate a woman. If he wants to attract gay men, he must stay a man.
141 I see Kim for the first time, on the stairs, dancing, posing. She is spectacular, exotic (I find out later that she is from Belize), and sexy. [âŠ] It is difficult to avoid viewing Kim from two perspectives: as a researcher but also as a single, heterosexual man.
168 Autogynephiles are not âwomen trapped in menâs bodies.â (Anne Lawrence, a physician and sex researcher who is herself a postoperative transsexual, has called them âmen trapped in menâs bodies.â) Homosexual transsexuals, so naturally feminine from early on, can make this claim more accurately, but as we shall see, it is not completely true even of them.
176 [Ray] Blanchardâs ideas have not yet received the widespread attention they deserve, in large part because sex researchers are not as scholarly as they should be and so donât read the current scientific journals.
187 Blanchard thinks that a significant number of men who want she-males are âpartial autogynephilesââthey are primarily aroused to the image of themselves as she- male. Blanchard says that the men are not gay but are more like âscrambled up heterosexual men.â The transsexuals I know who worked as she-male prostitutes confirmed this. âThere was nothing gay about those men,â said one, who knows plenty about gay men.
207 One problem with [Paul] McHughâs analysis is that we simply have no idea how to make gender dysphoria go away. I suspect that both autogynephilic and homosexual gender dysphoria result from early and irreversible developmental processes in the brain. If so, learning more about the origins of transsexualism will not get us much closer to curing it.
214 Looking at Danny, it was difficult to imagine him wearing high heels and a dress. He looked good as a boyâif an unusually formally dressed one. When the family friendâs daughter showed up, she told him how handsome he looked, and he beamed. This was not a girl in boyâs clothing. As we congregated in the hallway, I watched Danny interact. Shy at first, he whispered quietly to his sister. Then someone asked him about Convocation. He cocked his head back dramatically, threw his forearm across his eyes and said, âI thought it was entirely too long. Must they read every single name?â His word choice was obviously unusual, for an eight-year-old boy, and his speech style was precise and somewhat prissy. This was not a typical boy, either. A few moments later, Danny said: âMummy, I need to go to the menâs room.â I am certain that as he said that, he emphasized âmenâsâ and looked my way. And off he went, by himself. At that moment, I became as certain as I can be of Dannyâs future.
232 [from the Index] Transsexuals Common lies and deceptiveness of, 172-176
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Gary J. Alter is an American plastic surgeon who has been a longtime supporter of our community. He has headquarters in Beverly Hills as well as offices in New York and Dubai. I suggest giving him strong consideration for your needs, as he is very experienced. I personally know several satisfied patients. He was also a major supporter of our first all-transgender performance of The Vagina Monologues in 2004. I am honored to know him personally.
Background
Alter graduated from UCLA School of Medicine in 1973 before additional training at Baylor and The Mayo Clinic. He was one of the first physicians with Board Certification by both the American Board of Plastic Surgery and the American Board of Urology.
He has an office-based practice. Alter is known for genital plastic surgery, especially genital reconstruction. He has invented many original surgical procedures adopted by other plastic surgeons in the field, including the “Alter Central-Wedge labiaplasty technique”.
Alter is a frequent subject of media coverage. In addition to appearing in almost every major print media outlet, he was featured on E! Entertainment’s programs Dr. 90210 and Botched. He has been highlighted on Alexis Arquette: She’s My Brother (documentary) and on the TLC show Strange Sex. He has appeared on the Discovery Health Network, TLC, CNN, the Larry King Show, and was a recurrent guest on “Red Eye” on the Fox News Channel.
Indigo Pages on Gary Alter http://myria.home.mindspring.com/Indigo/Surgeons/Alter/AlterF2M.html
My SRS Experience with Dr. Gary Alter by “Rachel,” ed. by Anne Lawrence (2000) http://www.annelawrence.com/altersrsnarrative.html
My L.A. Experience with Dr. Alter by Lisa Kassner (1997) http://www.geocities.com/WestHollywood/Heights/5445/alterexp1.html
Amy Beth Bloom (born June 18, 1953) is an American author, producer, and therapist. She is author of the 2002 nonfiction book Normal: Transsexual CEOs, Cross-dressing Cops, and Hermaphrodites with Attitude.
Background
Bloom’s mother Sydelle was a psychotherapist and writer. Her father Murray was an author of books and magazine articles.
Bloom earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theater/Political Science from Wesleyan University in 1975 and her Masters Degree in Social Work from Smith College in 1978.
She has authored several fiction books and was creator of the 2007 television drama State of Mind.
Normal (2002)
The book is expanded from her April 2002 Atlantic Monthly article âConservative Men in Conservative Dresses.â Bloom has several points of contact with the community.
A Dignity Cruise to Catalina Island
The Fall Harvest 2000 gender convention in St. Louis
Tri-Ess leaders Jane Ellen and Mary Francis Fairfax
She quotes psychologist Ray Blanchard, who says: “They emulate the women they want to be – some kind of confusion between attraction to a sexual object and being the object.” When Bloom mentioned that she’s been told that crossdressing is relaxing for its practitioners, Blanchard was quick to shut that down:
‘Of course it’s not relaxing,’ Blanchard says, with some heat. ‘Heels and makeup and a wig and a corset? It’s preposterous. Even women don’t find that relaxing. Relaxing is a pair of sweatpants, clothing that doesn’t even feel like clothing. Cross-dressers want to normalize this, to have it seen as relaxation and self-expression.’
Bloom seems to agree:
Crossdressers wear their fetish, and the gleam in their eyes, however muted by time or habit, the unmistakable presence of a lust being satisfied or a desire being fulfilled in that moment, in your presence, even by your presence, is unnerving. The mix of the crossdressersâ own arousal and anxiety and our responsive anxiety and discomfort is more than most of us can bear.
Bloom concludes of the crossdressers she met:
There is no innate grasp of female friendship, of the female insistence on relatedness, of the female tradition of support and accommodation for oneâs partner and of giving precedence to the relationship overall.
Nancy Nangeroni complained in an open letter to The Atlantic that the piece was a “glib caricature.” J. Michael Bailey recommended it in his book The Man Who Would Be Queen because it “angered many autogynephiles.”
References
Bloom, Amy (2002) Conservative Men in Conservative Dresses. The Atlantic; April 2002, Vol. 289 Issue 4, p. 94.
Helen Boyd is the pen name of Gail Helen Kramer (born May 13, 1969), an American author and activist. Her spouse is actor Rachel E. Crowl. Boyd is a prominent activist for spouses of transgender people.
Background
Boyd grew up in Oceanside, New York with working class social justice Catholics parents, graduating high school in 1987. She graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a degree in English and Masters in Writing from City College of New York in 1995.
Boyd and Crowl began dating around 1998 and were married in 2001.
I interviewed Boyd for our video series on Coming Out.
Books
My Husband Betty: Love, Sex, and Life with a Crossdresser (2004)
In the crossdressing community, the man who admits he is turned on by his dressing is still considered a pervert. The autogynephilic transsexual will not receive the same sympathy for her transsexualism as the non-autogynephilic transsexual. That’s exactly what makes Bailey’s book so dangerous: it allows transsexual women to be condemned by our society for having “perverse” sexual arousal patterns.
She’s Not the Man I Married: My Life with a Transgender Husband (2007)
